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DUNLOP, BECKY NORTON:
Files, 1982-1983

Office
of Cabinet Affairs: Special Assistant to the President &
Director of the Office of Cabinet Affairs, 1982-1983

See Also:Dunlop, Becky Norton: Papers,
1985-1989

Biography

Becky
Norton Dunlop was born in 1951 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At a young age, her
family moved to Columbus, Ohio where she grew up and went to school. She
graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1973.

After
college, Dunlop was associated with the American Conservative Union from
1973-1980, completing her service as assistant executive director and
consultant to the board. In 1977 she
founded Century Communications, Inc., which focused on strategic planning,
communications and managing for results.

Dunlop
was involved with the Reagan Presidential Campaigns in 1976 and 1980.Dunlop continued her Reagan association as a volunteer
and a Service by Agreement employee within the Office of Presidential
Personnel of the Reagan Administration in March 1981. A year later she was
given a permanent position at the White House as Special Assistant to the
President and Director of the Office of Cabinet Affairs handling the day-to-day
coordination of Reagan Administration policy with Cabinet level appointees and managing
the staff of the office.

In
June 1983, Dunlop returned to the Office of Presidential Personnel as Deputy
Assistant to the President and remained in that position until early 1985.She served in the Department of Justice in
1985-1986 as Senior Special Assistant to the Attorney General managing Cabinet
level domestic policy issues including environment, family policy, federalism,
tort reform, privatization and welfare reform. During
1987-1989, she was Deputy Under Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Interior and Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks.
President Reagan also appointed her to head the Interagency Committee for
Women's Business Ownership, a U.S. Commissioner to the Great Lakes Fishery
Commission, and as his Personal Representative to the Northern Marianas.

In the
1990s Dunlop served as the Secretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth
of Virginia in the Cabinet of Governor (later Senator) George Allen. Her
responsibilities included the Departments of Environmental Quality, Historic
Resources, Game and Inland Fisheries, Conservation and Recreation, the Marine
Resources Commission, the Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Department and the
Natural History Museum. She was the principal environmental policy advisory to
the Governor and held this post from 1994 to 1998. During her tenure, the
agencies were stream-lined, decentralized and down-sized. Governor Allen also
appointed Mrs. Dunlop to serve as co-chair of the Governor's Council on
Self-Determination and Federalism and Vice-Chair of his Commission on
Environmental Stewardship.Dunlop is one
of the few free-market environmentalists to have headed a government agency
and put ideas into action.Her book, Clearing the Air: How the People of Virginia
Improved the States Air and Water Despite the EPA,
(Tocqueville Institution, 2000)chronicles
her experience for this time.

Dunlop
also served in the administration of President George W. Bush. In 2002, Bush
appointed her to a part-time post as chairwoman of the Federal Services Impasse
Panel, which resolves disputes between agencies and labor unions.

Currently, Becky
Norton Dunlop serves on the senior management team of The Heritage Foundation
as Vice President for External Relations. Her responsibilities include the
departments engaged in strategic outreach and communication to conservative
public policy institutions and other leadership organizations, international,
state and local government officials, business leaders and conservative policy
activists. She represents Heritage and presents conservative policies and views
in national and international venues.

In addition, Dunlop is a frequent speaker
in the United States and internationally and writes and is a contributor to
electronic and print media. Dunlop serves on a multitude of boards and
foundations including the National Wilderness Institute, Defenders of Property
Rights, the Family Foundation of Virginia, the Virginia Institute of Public
Policy, the American Conservative Union, the Association of American Educators,
the Institute for 21st Century Agriculture and the Reagan Alumni Association,
the Institute on Religion and Democracy, the American Conservation Union and
the Phillips Foundation.

She is
on the Advisory Council for the Landmark Legal Foundation and Hunters for the
Hungry, a member of the Philanthropy Roundtable and a Fellow with the Atlas
Foundation. She recently served as an appointee of the Senate Majority Leader
on the Women's Progress Commemoration Commission. She is also a member of the
Board of Governors of the Reagan Ranch, Rancho del Cielo,
in Santa Barbara, California.

Dunlop
resides in Arlington, Va., with her husband, George S. Dunlop. Mr. Dunlops
former employee, Senator Jesse Helms gave Mrs. Dunlop away at their wedding.

Scope & Content Note

Ms.
Dunlop joined the Office of Cabinet Affairs in March 1982 as Special Assistant
to the President and the Director of the Office of Cabinet Affairs.She replaced T. Kenneth Cribb
who returned to work in the Office of the Counsellor
(Ed Meese) as the Deputy Counsellor.

Dunlops
function was managing the Cabinet Affairs staff, coordinating Cabinet meetings,
and coordinating and documenting the seven Cabinet Council meetings and
circulating the position and policy papers for these meetings. In addition,
Dunlop oversaw the day-to-day communication and coordination of Reagan
Administration policies with the Cabinet agencies.

Dunlop
started in the White House with Presidential Personnel and she returned to that
office in June 1983.She was continually
interested in placing personnel with specific conservative principles and
experience, and her Cabinet Affairs collection reflects this continued interest.Her collection arrived at the Library with a
significant amount of empty subject folder within the Cabinet Affairs material.Since Dunlop carried over various functions
from both her offices, please consult her collection for the Office of
Presidential Personnel and personal papers here at the Library to see a full
view of her work product.

The Dunlop Cabinet Affairs collection
consists of 10 series: SERIES I: Cabinet; SERIES II: Cabinet Council on
Commerce and Trade; SERIES III: Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs; SERIES IV:
Cabinet Council on Food and Agriculture; SERIES V: Cabinet Council on Human
Resources; SERIES VI: Cabinet Council on Legal Policy; SERIES VII: Cabinet
Council on Management and Administration; SERIES VIII: Cabinet Council on
Natural Resources and the Environment; SERIES IX: Subject File; Series X:
Chronological File

SERIES
IV: CABINET COUNCIL ON FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, 1983 (5 folders; Box 3)

This series contains material
relating to the Cabinet Council on Food and Agriculture meeting agendas,
meeting minutes, participant lists and briefing and background papers on the following
topics: rural development strategy, rural electrification, agricultural
exports, and agricultural marketing production control orders. The material is
arranged in chronological order by meeting dates.

This series contains material
relating to the Cabinet Council on Legal Policy meeting agendas, meeting
minutes, participant lists and briefing and background papers on the following
topics: civil rights policy, pension equity for women, antitrust issues, fair
housing, toxic torts, Intercircuit Tribunal proposal,
and fee cap legislation. The material is arranged in chronological order by
meeting dates.

SERIES
VII:CABINET COUNCIL ON MANAGEMENT AND
ADMINISTRATION,

1982-1983
(0.1 l.ft.;
Box 4)

This series contains material
relating to the Cabinet Council on Management and Administration meeting
agendas, meeting minutes, participant lists and briefing and background papers
on the following topics: work space management, reports of Inspectors General
activities, real property reforms, federalism, capital formation, debt
collection, reduction-in-force reform, personnel incentive system reform,
procurement reform, and cash management.The material is arranged in chronological order by meeting dates.

SERIES
VIII: CABINET COUNCIL ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT,

1982-1983
(0.2 l.ft.;
Box 4-5)

This series contains material
relating to the Cabinet Council on Management and Administration meeting
agendas, meeting minutes, participant lists and briefing and background papers
on the following topics: Synthetic Fuels Corporation, cost sharing for federal
water projects, Environmental Protection Agency legislation, environmental
speech, Clean Water Act reauthorization, nuclear licensing and regulatory
reform, the Clean Air Act, Outer Continental Shelf revenue sharing,
international population, international environmental issues, coal slurry
pipelines decision, and oil price declines. The material is arranged in
chronological order by meeting dates.

SERIES
IX: SUBJECT FILE, 1982-1983 (1.5 l.ft.; Box 5-8)

This series contains material
relating to the management, procedures, and structure of the Cabinet Council
system; a limited amount of monthly reports from agencies for 1983; yearly
accomplishments for agencies for 1982; a limited amount of planning matrixes
for Administration proposals; and the following topics: Freedom of Information Act amendments; Department
of Education reorganization; sunsetting the Civil
Aeronautics Board; status reports on computer support for White House offices;
issue alerts from the Environmental Protection Agency, acid rain; the Reagan
response to critics of the Administrations social policies (Fairness II
notebook); Federal labor-management relations; budget issues and budget
reviews; hazardous substances export policy; infanticide, problems for
independent oil producers; State dinner guests; the coal slurry pipeline, environmental
speech, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, food stamp regulatory reform; Outer
Continental Shelf revenue sharing; and merit system standards.The material is arranged alphabetically.

SERIES
X: CHRONOLOGICAL FILE, 1982 (l.ft., Box 9)

This series contains material
relating to chronological memos and letters with White House staff, her direct
supervisor, Craig Fuller, agency staff, Congress and the general public.There are two sets of chronological
correspondence.One is arranged by date
and the second is arranged by date and alphabetical. This series contains a
significant amount of material indicating Dunlop was continuing her work to
place conservatives within the Reagan administration while working in Cabinet
Affairs.